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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Edmund Burke

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service

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